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Patented Jan. 26, 1892.

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B. J. CRAGGY. WASTE END CONVEYER POR GARDING MACHINES. No. 467,888.

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B. J. GRAGGY. WASTE BND GUNVEYER FOR GARDING MACHINES. 10.467,888.

Patented Jan. 26, 1892.

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rra STATES 4VPATENT QFFICE.

BENJAMIN J. CRAGGY, OF MANCHESTER, NEV HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR OF TlVO-TIHRDS TO G. A. OLZENDAM AND E. O. YWILSON, OF SAME PLACE.

WASTE-END CONVEYER FOR CARDlNG-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,888, dated January 26, 1892.

Application filed September 14, 1891. Serial No. 405,606. (No model.)

T @ZZ 1072.071?, it may concern: d is the dolfer-cylinder, which takes the sta- Be it known that I, BENJAMIN J. CRAGGY, ple from the cylinder c and from which it is of Manchester, in the county of Hillsborough in turn taken by a vibrating dolfer-conib (not and State of New Hampshire, have invented shown) of common construction in the form 55 5 certain new and useful Improvements in of a loosely-formed rope and passed through lVaste-End Conveyers for @aiding-Machines, the drawing-rolls e, whence it passes upward of which the following' is a specification. and over overhead rolls f and is delivered to My invention has reference to wool-carding what is known to cardin g artisans as the Apmachines generally, and is particularly adaptperly feed g. 6G

1o ed for use in connection with machines in The Apperly feed consists of mechanism which what is commonly known as the Apwhich deposits the drawingreceived from thc perly feed is employed. overhead rolls in diagonal lines upon an end- In machines of the kind mentioned the two less apron which travels toward and supplies side or end strandsof roving delivered from the staple to what is herein shown as the second 65 I5 condensing-rolls are irregular and defective, breaker. To further explain, the mechanism for the reason that they are formed from the of the Apperly feed g operates to lay the irregularlooped ends of the drawing deposited drawing upon the said endless apron, so that in diagonal lines upon the endless traveling its course will be back and forth from side to apron, which supplies staple to the second side of the apron in lines oblique toits line of 7o 2o breaker. travel, loops or bends being formed at the It is the object of the invention to provide Vsides at each return point of the drawings. simple and eifecient means whereby the afore- 7L designates the main cylinder of the secsaid defective strands of roving may be taken ond breaker, which operates upon the stock from the condensing-rolls and carried back to received from the feed j", and from the second 7 5 the feed-box and delivered therein to be rebreaker thestaple is conveyed in the usual carded. way to the finishing-card, of which t' is the The invention will rst be described with main cylinder and j j theY doffers, which rereference to the accompanying drawings, move the stock from the main cylinder 'i and forming a part of this specification, and then deliver it to the condensing-rolls 7o. The So 3o be pointed out in the claims. amount of stock contained in the looped ends Of the said drawings, Figure lis a side eleof the drawing laid upon the apron f is unvation of a set of cards such as are commonly even, and the position of the said loops upon used in woolen-mills, with my invention apthe apron is more or less irregular, and as a plied thereto, portions of the latter being repconsequence the edges of the sheet of mate- 85 resented as broken away. Fig. 2is a diagram rial on the main cylinder t' is ragged and irshowing the condensing-rolls and some other regular, making the threads of roving formed adjuncts of the carding-machine at the delivtherefrom unsuited for use on spinningr` ery end thereof,parts being represented asin frames. The said threads are therefore colsection and other parts as broken out. lected as waste and carried back to the feed- 9o 4o Like letters of reference designate like parts box to be recarded; and my invention conor features, as the ease may be, in both views. sists of means for accomplishing this fuuc- In representing a carding-engine I have, tion of returning the waste from the condensfor the sake of clearness of explanation, omiting-rolls to the feed-box. ted to portray more of the parts than is neces In Fig. 2 l have shown the two banks of 9 5 sary. condensing-rolls at the delivery end of the In the drawings, having reference to Fig. l, machine, Z designating the perfect threads of a designates what may be supposed to be a roving and m the imperfect 0r waste threads Bramwell or other suitable feed-box, from which are formed from the sides of the bat or which the stock or staple is delivered upon sheet of staple dotted from the finishing-card. roo 5o the feed-table l) and supplied to the first n. designates a tube or pipe, the open end breaker, of which c is the main cylinder. of which is arranged at the point at which the thread of roving m is delivered from the one bank of condensing-rolls, and o is a similar tube, the open end of which is arranged to receive therein the waste or imperfect roving coming from the other bank of condensingrolls. The two tubes` n o converge at the point p, where theyfeorneet'with'asingle pipe V q, which communicates with a blast fan 'or' blower r. s is a deliverytube or pipe leading from the blast-fan back to the feed-box ct, as is most clearly shown in Fig. l.

IVith this construction and arrangement of parts thewaste roving will be drawn or sucked y through the tubes n 0 p bythe blast-'fan v'and forced through the delivery-tube Sto a 'suitable point in the feed-box without injury to the staple and with the expenditure of 4little i power or force. Y

The tubes or pipes between. the ends of the machine, as also the blast-fan, may be located beneath the floor upon which the machine f stands, or extend overhead above the machin e, or be otherwise suitably positioned, as 'circumstances may suggest or require. v

My invention is not confined to machines in which the Apperly feed is employed in 'connection with the second breaker, as the said feed may as well be used, yas is frequently done, in connection with the nisher, and, furthermore, the delivery-pipe, instead of extending to the feed-box, mayextend to a wasteboX, the picker-room, or other place or point.

By my improvement the waste ends are automatically conveyed from the cardingfmachine to a distant point 'with the expenditure I set fort-h.

of ylittle power and without injuryto the staple, Iand, moreover, the yconveying pipes or tubes can be arranged iu places entirely out of the way of other machinery, the operatives, &c

K Having thus ex-plainedrthe natureof my invention fand described "a livifay j of constructing and usi-'ng the same, though without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which Ait may be madeor all of its modes of use, I declare that what I claim is- I. In a carding-machine, the combination, with the condensing-rolls, of a blast-fan, pipes or tubes "ecten'ding between 'the points of delivery of the Waste vends and the said blastfan, and a single pipe extending from the blast-fan to a receptacle at adistant point,

2. In a'ardingemachine, the combination, with the feed-box, condensing-rolls, and intermediate carding and feeding mechanism, of pipes or tubes in and o, extending from-the point of delivery of the extreme side threads of roving, a blast-fan with which said pipes communicate,y and a single A delivery-pipe extending from the blast-fan to the feed-boxer other receptacle or point, asset forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses, this 10th day of September, A. 189,1, Q v

I BENJAMIN J. CRAGGY.

WmeSfSeS Gus' Avlis A.y OLZE'NDAM, WALTER B. BALCH'. 

